Vintage Canadian Sparrows….
Sea Sparrow Missile Launch off Puerto Rico sometime before 1992 by the Canadian destroyer HMCS Iroquois. Iroquois (DDG 280) is a Tribal -class destroyer that has served the Canadian Forces since 1972. She is 5100-tons and 425 ft OLA, about the size of a Perry class FFG that is of the same vintage design. She commissioned 29 July 1972, and had a TRUMP refit in 1992 in which she traded her Sea Sparrows for SM-2MRs via a VLS system. At 41 years sold she is still kicking and is assigned to Maritime Forces Atlantic (MARLANT) homeported at CFB Halifax.